A person has been crushed to death in a workplace accident at a rubbish tip on Auckland's North Shore.
The accident happened at the EnviroWaste refuse station off Constellation Drive in Mairangi Bay.
It was understood the person may have been crushed by a bin.
Police said emergency services were called to the scene at 3.26pm today.
The victim was male but police did not give an age.
Police said they would not be releasing the male's name today.
The death will be referred to the coroner.
Police, fire and ambulance are at the scene.
People are being turned away from the gates, as police continue their work at the scene.
A truck arrived shortly after 5pm - its driver asking to be let in to dump some rubbish.
An EnviroWaste worker told him: "Not today, bro."
Another police vehicle has just entered the premises also.
In a statement released this evening, EnviroWaste chief executive Gary Saunders said the company was "devastated" that there had been a fatality at its transfer station at Constellation Drive.
He confirmed the man who died was a truck driver and not an EnviroWaste employee.
"Right now our thoughts and focus are around the family of the deceased, our staff on-site and emergency services as they deal with this incident.
"We are and will continue to do everything we can to support and work with authorities on-site."
Mr Saunders said the site is used by many different operators and that EnviroWaste will be doing everything it can to work with all involved to find out what happened.
"The driver involved works for a waste collection company who use the transfer station. It appears he was moving a waste bin at a bin storage yard adjacent to the transfer station when the tragic incident happened."
WorkSafe New Zealand said it had been advised of an incident and it was making inquiries.
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Last March a 20-year-old recycling truck driver was critically injured and later died in hospital after he was found unconscious in an EnviroWaste recycling truck in Thorndon, Wellington.
Junior Hunt was pulled from the truck and taken to Wellington Hospital after he suffered horrific injuries after being crushed in lifting gear. He died the next day.
Rubbish truck deaths
• 2015: Wellington recycling truck driver Junior Hunt, 20, died of horrific injuries after being crushed in lifting gear.
• 2015: Jane Lee Devonshire, 19, crushed to death when Onyx rubbish truck goes over a Birkenhead cliff.
• 2014: Auckland waste collection worker fatally crushed between two vehicles.
• 2010: Alpha Refuse Collections crew member Willie Nicholas, 29, killed when rubbish truck backed over him in a Mangere driveway.
• 2010: Another Alpha Refuse Collections worker Robert Joshua was also backed over in South Auckland.
• 2007: A 13-year-old Hamilton boy killed by a Street Smart rubbish collection truck while helping his dad. Company fined $87,500 and ordered to pay $60,000 reparation.
• 2007: Onyx driver Patrick Harrison, 51, killed when rubbish truck smashes into Birkenhead house.
• 2006: Inia Motu Rauwhero Roberts, 15, killed at Whitford Landfill in Auckland when tractor he was driving rolled and crushed him.
• 2005: James Arthur Kirkpatrick, 18, trips and falls under Onyx rubbish truck in Christchurch.
• 2001: Brady Prouse Williams, 16, crushed to death after falling into compactor of Street Smart recycling truck at Half Moon Bay near Pakuranga.
